Ioshelfka

Home-baked Iosevka builds with personal twists and a fancy posterior. Based on the FiraCode template, with font tweaks from all font variants as I see fit. Deterministic and pretty.

Preview

Building

This flake provides 4 packages corresponding to different versions of the same font. The differences are subtle, but noticeable. The main variants of Ioshelfka are:

• Ioshelfka Mono
• Ioshelfka Term
• Ioshelfka Mono Nerdfont
• Ioshelfka Term Nerdfont

You may built any available variant with nix build. You may also call ./nix/ioshelfka-base.nix yourself if you'd like to apply your own tweaks in addition to what is available. Doing so invalidates any binary cache, but that probably does not bother you.

# You may build the available variants without checking out to the repository
$ nix build github:notashelf/ioshelfka#ioshelfka-mono -Lv

Installing

Nix users may access to the packages provided by the flake, as described in the building section. This will cause the font to be built from source. There is no functional binary cache, so this will take a bit of time and consume a lot of resources.

Built packages are provided in the GitHub Releases tab, and get updated each time a new tag is provided. This can be used by Nix users who simply want to avoid building, or non-Nix users that cannot afford a proper package manager on their system.

With Nix

You'll probably install this as a part of your system configuration. In most cases it'll be enough to add this to your config.fonts.packages and then use the correct font name (as listed by fontconfig) in the application you want to use Ioshelfka in. Some applications require font files, so you might need to pass the full font path to those:

let
  ioshelfka = inputs.ioshelfka.packages.${pkgs.hostPlatform.system}.ioshelfka-term;
in {
  someConfig = ''
    fontPath = ${ioshelfka}/share/fonts/truetype/IoshelfkaTerm-Bold.ttf
  '';
}

To use fontconfig, you may refer to the font directly. For example, using the Foot terminal:

{
  settings = {
    main.font = "IoshelfkaMono Nerd Font:size=15";
  };
}

Credits

The build process is partially inspired by @viperML's custom Iosevka build.

Additionally, the Iosevka customizer and the build guide found in the Iosevka repository have been very valuable resources. Thank you!